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Wednesday March 27th, 2013

Kate Middleton Nearly Bankrupted Issa, Ryan Lochte’s Reality Show Gets a Trailer, and China’s First Lady Has a Fashion Following
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Kate Middleton Nearly Bankrupted Issa, Ryan Lochte’s Reality Show Gets a Trailer, and China’s First Lady Has a Fashion Following

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Issa almost went bankrupt a few years back due to Kate Middleton and a certain little blue jersey wrap dress… {Vogue UK}

Get ready to simultaneously swoon and cringe: Ryan Lochte’s E! reality show now has a full trailer. {E! Online}

As Victoria Beckham says “Goodbye” to singing, rumors are floating around that the Spice Girls are planning to hold a reality show competition for the next Posh Spice. Obviously we’re trying out. {Gossip Cop}

You can count rapper and nouveau fashion icon A$AP Rocky as a gay rights activist. {Interview}

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Published at 1:45 PM

Friday March 8th, 2013

Chrissy Teigen Takes a Nude Selfie, JCPenney Loses Thousands of Employees, and Marc Jacobs Busted for Real ‘Faux’ Fur
Fashion News Roundup

Chrissy Teigen Takes a Nude Selfie, JCPenney Loses Thousands of Employees, and Marc Jacobs Busted for Real ‘Faux’ Fur

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Has Chrissy Teigen found an Instagram Terms of Service loophole? The Sports Illustrated model posted a nudie pic (naturally) to celebrate her 200,000th follower and has yet to face the repercussions. {Gawker}

We’re starting to feel really bad for JCPenney. The struggling department store just laid off 2,200 employees in addition to the 19,000 it already let go in the course of its revamp. {HuffPo}

New face of Sheba cat food (yep) Eva Longoria is certainly taking her spokeswoman duties seriously: The actress showed up to a brand event with an actual feline in hand. {The Cut}

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Published at 2:45 PM

Wednesday January 30th, 2013

Rude! Alexander Wang Brings Back MADtv‘s Bon Qui Qui To ‘Work’ at His NYC Flagship
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Rude! Alexander Wang Brings Back MADtv‘s Bon Qui Qui To ‘Work’ at His NYC Flagship

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We have to hand it to Alexander Wang, this is pretty clever and bound to go viral.

The designer enlisted comedienne Anjelah Johnson to bring back MADtv‘s Bon Qui Qui for his T by Alexander Wang spring campaign, and got everyone from Simon Doonan to A$AP Rocky to Natasha Lyonne to make cameos. The whole thing is basically one big ’90s nostalgia trip and we’re loving every minute of it.

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Published at 1:41 PM

Thursday January 3rd, 2013

Yo! An Incomplete History of Fashion Name-Dropping in Rap
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Yo! An Incomplete History of Fashion Name-Dropping in Rap

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Rap lyrics that sound like they’re rattling off the Fashion Month schedule are pretty much par for the course, and this trend can be traced all the way back to the beginnings of the genre. Lately, though, the caliber of the designers mentioned — and the frequency with which they’re mentioned — seems to be at an all-time high.

We decided to take a look back at some of rap’s most well known fashion name-drops over the years (with a little help from the boys from Rap Genius), from the requisite Versace shout-outs of the past, to the more recent inclusion of greats like Alexander McQueen and Isabel Marant. Read on to see the evolution–we bet that we’ll have you singing along by the end.

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Published at 5:30 PM